Part I. People, Human Relationships, and Politics
The paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J.M. Coetzee / Robert Pippin
Disgrace, Desire, and the Dark Side of the New South Africa / Adriaan van Heerden
Ethical Thought and the Problem of Communication: A Strategy for Reading Diary of a Bad Year / Jonathan Lear
Torture and Collective Shame / Jeff McMahan
Part II. Humans, Animals, and Morality
Converging Convictions: Coetzee and His Characters on Animals / Karen Dawn and Peter Singer
Coetzee and Alternative Animal Ethics / Eilisa Aaltola
Writing the Lives of Animals / Ido Geiger
Sympathy and Scapegoating in H.M. Coetzee / Andy Lamey
Part III. Rationality and Human Lives
Against Society, Against History, Against Reason: Coetzee's Archaic Postmodernism / Anton Leist
Coetzee's Critique of Reason / Martin Woessner
J.M. Cietzee, Moral Thinker / Alice Crary
Being True to Fact: Coetzee's Prose of the World / Pieter Vermeulen
Part IV. Literature, Literary Style, and Philosophy
Truth and Love Together at Last: Style, Form, and Moral vision in Age of Iron / Samantha Vice
The Lives of Animals and the Form-Content Connection / Jennifer Flynn
Irony and Belief in Elizabeth Costello / Michael Funk Deckard and Ralph Palm
Coetzee's Hidden Polemic with Nietzsche / Alena Dvorakova
J.M. Coetzee and ethics : philosophical perspectives on literature. ISBN 9780231520249. Published by Columbia University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.